Anders da Silva Rytter Hansen

2 Corinthians 5:7

Fediverse account: @[email protected]
My blog: of the CachyOS kernel and XLibre for Fedora and EL

[Anders da Silva Rytter Hansen @andersrh_rh]

@nicolas_danelon @XLibreDev I didn't notice any. I have a fedora test VM where I replaced Xorg with Xlibre. But I ran it with software compositing because the kernel I use doesn't support hardware acceleration in VMs for some reason. So maybe that has an impact on it

[XLibre @XLibreDev]

Last but not least, there are #XLibre packages available for #RockyLinux. You can find them at the XLibre #Fedora Copr https://t.co/XmhVbtIX8b. The sources are available at https://t.co/xgC0kDlLCa. A big thank you to Anders RH @andersrh_rh and Kevin Kofler for maintaining them!

[Anders da Silva Rytter Hansen @andersrh_rh]

@goainwo0 @XLibreDev There is Xlibre for opensuse too. https://t.co/ukgHnVlLvL

[Anders da Silva Rytter Hansen @andersrh_rh]

@mazingjohn @LundukeJournal Yes. A lot of people are using X11 myself included.

[Anders da Silva Rytter Hansen @andersrh_rh]

@Itsfoss Isn't that a bit clickbaity and overstatement? 😅 It would take all of the Linux kernel to be rewritten in Rust. Even if it was, wouldn't unsafe code be necessary to write kernel code? AFAIK unsafe code is not protected against memory safety bugs.

[Anders da Silva Rytter Hansen @andersrh_rh]

@Terry_Hendrix @system76 Completely agree. I'm totally done with Ubuntu. The last version I will use if I will use it is 24.04

[XLibre @XLibreDev]

There are #XLibre packages available for #OracleLinux. You can find them at the Fedora Copr XLibre group https://t.co/XmhVbtIX8b. The sources are available at https://t.co/xgC0kDlLCa. A big thank you to Anders RH @andersrh_rh and Kevin Kofler for creating and maintaining them!

[XLibre @XLibreDev]

There are #XLibre packages available for #Fedora. You can find them at the Fedora Copr XLibre group https://t.co/XmhVbtJuXJ. The sources are available at https://t.co/xgC0kDmjrI. A big thank you to Anders RH @andersrh_rh and Kevin Kofler for creating and maintaining them!

[XLibre @XLibreDev]

There are #XLibre packages available for #CentOS Stream. You can find them at the #Fedora Copr XLibre group https://t.co/XmhVbtJuXJ. The sources are available at https://t.co/xgC0kDmjrI. A big thank you to Anders RH @andersrh_rh and Kevin Kofler for creating and maintaining them!

[Abdulkadir | Cybersec @cyber__razz]

The best software you’re using was never sold to you.

VLC plays every file format you throw at it. No codecs to install. No subscriptions. No “upgrade to unlock.” It has worked this way since 2001 and it still does today. It runs on Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS. It plays corrupted files, half-downloaded videos, obscure formats that nothing else touches. Media players have come and gone. VLC is still here.

Brave rethought what a browser should do by default. Native ad blocking. Built-in fingerprint protection. HTTPS upgrades. No data collection pipeline feeding back to an ad network. It is built on Chromium so compatibility is not a concern, but it ships with privacy baked in rather than bolted on as an extension.

Two completely different tools. Same principle. Built by people who believed software should serve the user first.

Both are open source. Both are free. Not free with a catch. Not free until the trial expires. Free.

Most of the infrastructure people rely on daily is quietly owned by companies with misaligned incentives. VLC and Brave are the exception. They exist because communities and developers decided some things should just work for everyone, regardless of what they can pay.

That matters more than most people realize.

[Anders da Silva Rytter Hansen @andersrh_rh]

@SonicDesktop Awesome! Keep up the good work!

[SonicDE @SonicDesktop]

We forked the #KDE Plasma Login Manager. It now runs on #X11, drops privileges after init, and supports #systemd-free too. We tested it on Artix Linux with OpenRC, CachyOS with systemd, and on the #FreeBSD-based GhostBSD. #SonicDE sonic-login-manager https://t.co/EkSeVP5fgx

[XLibre @XLibreDev]

There are #XLibre packages available for #AlmaLinux 10. You can find them at the #Fedora Copr XLibre group https://t.co/XmhVbtJuXJ. The sources are available at https://t.co/xgC0kDmjrI. A big thank you to Anders RH @andersrh_rh and Kevin Kofler for creating and maintaining them!

[Anders da Silva Rytter Hansen @andersrh_rh]

@LundukeJournal We have also fixed it in the CachyOS kernel for Fedora and EL.

[Anders da Silva Rytter Hansen @andersrh_rh]

The CachyOS kernel for Fedora and EL has been updated to fix the dirty frag vulnerability.

https://t.co/De4eCEmvUF

[CachyOS @CachyOS]

We are rolling an update out for the kernel to fix this.

The default installed kernel will be fixed in few minutes and the rest will follow up soon today.

7.0.4-2, 7.0.5-1 and 6.18.28-1 will contain the fixes.

[The Lunduke Journal @LundukeJournal]

Linux distributions are scrambling to secure against the serious “Dirty Frag” Linux exploit, which was unveiled before fixes were in place.

AlmaLinux, which aims to be binary compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, is taking the unusual step of deviating from Red Hat and “patching ahead of our upstream”.

“Security is a top priority at AlmaLinux, and the severity of this flaw — combined with how trivial it is to exploit — meant we did not want to wait. Patches are not yet available from Red Hat, so our core team has built patched kernels.”

https://t.co/Jd6pqJQ5I1

[Anders da Silva Rytter Hansen @andersrh_rh]

Impressive

[FFmpeg @FFmpeg]

More hand written assembly from legendary "mkver", removing old mmx vc1 mc functions and adding more recent ssse3.

Over 17 times faster than C.

[Anders da Silva Rytter Hansen @andersrh_rh]

I have found a way to safe space on my VPS using Google Drive without sacraficing performance.

https://t.co/d1ZzcQK7wR

[The Lunduke Journal @LundukeJournal]

Seriously. When did we forget how to make “a cord that doesn’t break in a week”?

We used to endlessly fidget with that telephone cord. Then we used it as a whip. Then we tied things up with it.

And the darn thing still worked for another three decades before we bought a new phone.

Not because the cord (or the phone) was broken… just because we wanted a new wireless one that didn’t need the (apparently indestructible) cord.